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Research Centers and Institutes

The OSU College of Engineering collaborates with signature research centers and institutes that bring together industry, academia, the investment community, and other key partners. These platforms of cooperation serve as a catalyst for new research and revenue streams that transform ideas into solutions.

Center for e-Design: The Center for e-Design is an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center funded by the National Science Foundation. It matches industry needs with academic resources to produce efficient, effective, and collaborative design processes and accompanying digital tools with the goal of improving the lifecycle of products and systems within a broad range of engineering sectors.

Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry: The CSMC seeks to expand research and development and boost efforts to translate basic-level discoveries into the commercialization of new technologies. Its research focus includes the synthesis and study of solution-based film precursors and films, and their application in the fabrication of high-performance electronic devices.

Eco-Informatics Summer Institute: The EISI brings together interdisciplinary groups of students from many universities to work with faculty mentors on research projects that advance knowledge and understanding of old-growth forests, streams, and other native and managed ecosystems at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest.

Pacific Marine Energy Center: The Pacific Marine Energy Center (PMEC) is a partnership between Oregon State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. PMEC focuses on wave, tidal current, and in-river energy.

VertueLab: VertueLab partners with funders and innovators in clean technologies to make a global environmental impact. Through a series of focused programs and funding opportunities, VertueLab advances promising technologies to market while helping innovators find the resources they need to move their vision forward.

Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute: ONAMI is Oregon’s first Signature Research Center. A deep collaboration among Oregon universities, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, industry, and the investment community, ONAMI accelerates research and commercialization of materials science and related device and system technologies in Oregon.